CS 21, Crispus
Attucks School, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, District 16
CS 21 serves 700 students from Beford-Stuyvesant in Brooklyn. Students at CS 21 have benefited from Behind the Book's longstanding collaboration with the school. Key projects at CS 21 include a series of Elementary School Initiative programs that feature workshops and field trips concerning book creation and publishing, poetry writing, historical fiction, and civil rights research.
2008-2009
Kindergarten
Irene Smalls, My Nana and Me, storytelling workshop
Grade 1
Paul DuBois Jacobs & Jennifer Swender, My Subway Ride, series of workshop sessions for children to create
___a book
Grade 2
Marc Tauss, Superhero, series of workshop sessions for children to create a book about superheroes
Grade 4
Tony Medina and Andrea Kantrowitz (teaching artist), I and I Bob Marley, poetry writing workshop
Zetta Elliot & Shadra Strickland, Bird, poetry writing and illustration workshops, Random House field trip
Grade 5
Kai Jackson Issa and Andrea Kantrowitz, Howard Thurman's Great Hope, series of workshop sessions for
___research project about the civil rights movement
Doreen Rappaport, Nobody Gonna Turn Me 'Round, historical fiction workshop
2007-2008
Grade 1
Mo Willems, Knuffle Bunny Too: A Case of Mistaken Identity
Sharon Dennis Wyeth, Something Beautiful
Grade 2
Marc Tauss, Superhero, series of workshop sessions for children to create a book about superheroes
Grade 4
Andrea Davis Pinkney, Ella Fitzgerald, series of workshop sessions for children to create illustrated books
Brian Pinkney, Duke Ellington and Pigony Po, series of workshop sessions for children to create illustrated
___books
Tony Medina, Love to Langston and DeShawn Days, series of workshop sessions for chldren to create
___illustrated books
Sean Qualls, Phyllis' Big Test, series of workshop sessions for children to create illustrated books
Editors from Lee and Low Books (independent publisher of multicultural literature), workshop about
___publishing
Grade 5
John Grandits, Technically It's Not My Fault: Concrete Poems, concrete poetry writing workshop
2006-2007
Grade 1
Marthe Jocelyn, Hannah's Collections and Hannah's Seven Dresses, collaborative collage workshop
Mo Willems, Today I Will Fly!, special visit with three classes in one sitting
Grade 2
Tony Medina, Christmas Makes Me Think, poetry writing workshop (combined with a community service project)
Grade 3
Kam Mak, My Chinatown, illustrated book workshop
Grade 4
Brian Pinkney, Peggony-Po: A Whale of A Tale and The Adventures of Sparrowboy, illustrated book workshop
Grade 5
Mike Winerip, Check It Out!, school newspaper workshop
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